Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
As early as 1998 Manila Water requested an increase of the 5.2 percent rate of return it had included in its own bid to calculate its tariff. The MWSS Regulatory Office refused to grant the increase. Manila Water then seized an international arbitration panel.
Industrial water tariffs are set lower at S$0.52/m 3. [74] Water and sewerage tariffs are lower than tariffs in some European countries such as in Germany where the average water and sewer tariff including taxes was Euro 3.95 per m 3 in 2004. From 2017, the water tariff will increase by 30% in two phases. Investment.
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System [1] (Tagalog: Pangasiwaan ng Tubig at Alkantarilya sa Kalakhang Maynila), [5] formerly known as the National Waterworks and Sewerage System Authority (NAWASA), is the government agency that is in charge of water privatization in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of Cavite and Rizal in the Philippines.
Criteria for tariff setting Water tariffs are set based on a number of formal criteria defined by law, as well as informal criteria. [1] Formal criteria typically include: financial criteria (cost recovery), economic criteria (efficiency pricing based on marginal cost) and sometimes; environmental criteria (incentives for water conservation).
Manila Water Company, Inc. has the exclusive right to provide water and used water (wastewater) services [1] to over six million people in the East Zone of Metro Manila. [2] It is a subsidiary of Enrique Razon 's Trident Water Holdings Company, Inc., who acquired stakes from the country's oldest conglomerate, Ayala Corporation , starting in ...
The U.S. president said on Tuesday that he intends to impose auto tariffs "in the neighborhood of 25%" and similar duties on semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports. Minutes of the U.S. central ...
Upon taking control the company raised water tariffs by 35%. Demonstrations and a general strike erupted in January 2000 in protest against the tariff increase and the perceived privatization of water resources. The government arrested the leader of the protesters, Oscar Olivera. However, the protests spread to the entire country and the ...
Maynilad Water Services Inc. was formed in 1997 as a partnership of the Benpres Holdings Corporation (now the Lopez Group of Companies) and Ondeo Water Services Inc. after it won the bidding to run the water and wastewater services in the West Zone. Benpres eventually left the partnership in 2006 to settle a US$240 million debt.